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My associate [1] just wrote in again about ZeoSync [2] and their claims for
exceeding Claud Shannon's theoretical limits for compression. I'm keeping the
identity of the associate secret  mostly for protection if this does fall out
as a hoax, but anyway, my associate writes (and I have permission to quote
this):

> I am still undecided on how valid their claims are. They seem to have toned
> them down a little. Typical academics.
> 
> Slashdot [3] is still battering the shit out of them, but I highly suspect
> that but I could be wrong. I'm not enough of a data compression [expert] to
> say one way or the other.
> 
> Their algorithm certainly is interesting, it's just too damn slow to
> implement if you ask me—and I'm talking silicon here, not software.
> 

Amusing. It may just have to wait until quantum computing becomes a reality
before the algorithm can probably be implemented in any reasonable amount of
time. And that is pure conjecture on my part.

I also find it iteresting that one of the scientists mentioned, Borko Furht
[4] (who's page was last modifed on Wednesday, January 2^nd, 2002) that he
hasn't even mentioned working at or for ZeoSync. I would think that something
this revolutionary would be worthy of mention.

Hmmmmmmm … 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/01/09.1
[2] http://www.zeosync.com/
[3] http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/14/1324218.shtml
[4] http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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